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We just winged this session without any real concept. Well, mostly it was to try a certain portrait lens out I received the day before. The original location was the parking lot of a new Transit Center. The building is visible in #4 but deliberately rendered as a blurred background. We did it there for about 30 minutes before the security guard told us to move on since we didn't pull any permit. Oops, that's what we got from doing an impromptu session, I guess. Then we continued in the huge parking lot of a nearby stadium with some palm trees in the background. Finally, nobody bothered us there.
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Joshua
Just a stunning beautiful, sensual woman Joshua!!! Her fair skin and beautiful hair present no lighting/exposure conflicts. She is soooo beautiful!!!! Man how do you not just want to give her a big hug? Yes I do see some redness in a few of the images on her skin BUT it gives her a more "un processed" look! It is not distracting to me at all!!!
WOW..I just can't get over how very classy and beautiful this woman is and you did such a wonderful job photographing her! She should be proud!!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Just a stunning beautiful, sensual woman Joshua!!! Her fair skin and beautiful hair present no lighting/exposure conflicts. She is soooo beautiful!!!! Man how do you not just want to give her a big hug? Yes I do see some redness in a few of the images on her skin BUT it gives her a more "un processed" look! It is not distracting to me at all!!!
WOW..I just can't get over how very classy and beautiful this woman is and you did such a wonderful job photographing her! She should be proud!!
Dan
Thank you very much, Dan! The redness of her skin, especially in the last image, was there for real. She moved from a cold and sun-deprived town in the Midwest to sunny Southern California about a month before. One of the first things she did was to go to the beach and suntanned. We did this session well before the pandemic, of course. So, the reddish part of her skin was more sunburn than anything else . She is a very sweet and pleasant girl and she knows how to pose without much direction.
Oh I realize that the redness was from something affecting her skin! She is a fair skinned woman and that is only natural and you presented it well hence my comment about it looks more natural leaving it rather than doing some "painting type" to even out the color and reduce the redness.
She is one classy woman! I envy you the opportunity to work with such beautiful women.
Dan
Good job picking background color. The cliche has been what I call 70' mush. Avacado green and harvest gold foliage turned to mush with a 1.4 lens. I like the cordinating the shapes and colors to the subjects skin and hair color. One of my pet peeves, as a divorced guy, I call a woman touching her head in a photo my ex wife pose. Not tonight, I have a headache. That and hand on hip is a cliched pose. Great color through out the last few had excellent expressions other than the mindless cranky bordello look. Looks like you got some excellent images with that new lens. Now I would suggest you close down and get some environmental shots that give context or explain the subject or shot.
I agree with the above accolades and will add that she has an impressive range of pleasing facial expressions. Often the photographer will have a role in getting these right. So very well done, sir!
Danpbphoto wrote:
Just a stunning beautiful, sensual woman Joshua!!! Her fair skin and beautiful hair present no lighting/exposure conflicts. She is soooo beautiful!!!! Man how do you not just want to give her a big hug? Yes I do see some redness in a few of the images on her skin BUT it gives her a more "un processed" look! It is not distracting to me at all!!!
WOW..I just can't get over how very classy and beautiful this woman is and you did such a wonderful job photographing her! She should be proud!!
Dan
Dan, thank you again! My style of people/portrait photography is more to render the skin tone in PP as closely as I remember from the actual session. And yes, she was happy with the results. I gave her the entire set. I believe there were 50-60 images in total.
mrca wrote:
Good job picking background color. The cliche has been what I call 70' mush. Avacado green and harvest gold foliage turned to mush with a 1.4 lens. I like the cordinating the shapes and colors to the subjects skin and hair color. One of my pet peeves, as a divorced guy, I call a woman touching her head in a photo my ex wife pose. Not tonight, I have a headache. That and hand on hip is a cliched pose. Great color through out the last few had excellent expressions other than the mindless cranky bordello look. Looks like you got some excellent images with that new lens. Now I would suggest you close down and get some environmental shots that give context or explain the subject or shot. ...Show more →
Thank you very much, Robert! Good eye in figuring out the lenses; it was an 85mm f/1.4 and the new lens is a 135mm f/1.8. I am not quite sure which one you referred as the "bordello look" .
Jim Rickards wrote:
I agree with the above accolades and will add that she has an impressive range of pleasing facial expressions. Often the photographer will have a role in getting these right. So very well done, sir!
Jim, my appreciation for your kind words! She has been very pleasant and very easy to deal with.
AGeoJO wrote:
Dan, thank you again! My style of people/portrait photography is more to render the skin tone in PP as closely as I remember from the actual session. And yes, she was happy with the results. I gave her the entire set. I believe there were 50-60 images in total.
That works for you most excellent!
The term is was forgetting is that "air bushed" look. Don't like it! Yours is au natural. She is too beautiful and needs no air brushing!!!
Dan
Really fine rendering on the lens Joshua, has a great portrait feel to it whatever it is The colors are very pleasing in these. Not sure on focus accuracy as I don't know where your focus point was but looks like eye focused missed on #1?
Stunningly gorgeous model, love the hair color and her ability to change expression/moods.
So what lens was it? Was it the Samyang 75? Though it appears to be a longer lens to me
Karl Witt wrote:
Really fine rendering on the lens Joshua, has a great portrait feel to it whatever it is The colors are very pleasing in these. Not sure on focus accuracy as I don't know where your focus point was but looks like eye focused missed on #1?
Stunningly gorgeous model, love the hair color and her ability to change expression/moods.
So what lens was it? Was it the Samyang 75? Though it appears to be a longer lens to me
Karl
Thank you very much, Karl! Nope, the eye was in perfect focus in the original file, each one of them. Maybe it is the JPG compression here that renders that effect. Yes, she is a wonderful model with the girl-next-door look. And I didn’t see any tattoo on her at all, at least on the area that was visible, of course .
FYI, the two lenses for the session: an 85mm f/1.4 and an 135mm f/1.8.
She should be proud!!
. She is a very sweet and pleasant girl and she knows how to pose without much direction. 
The colors are very pleasing in these. Not sure on focus accuracy as I don't know where your focus point was but looks like eye focused missed on #1? 